en.Wedoany.com Reported - Farsoon Technologies recently partnered with Chánh Hồng Technology Co., Ltd. (CONG TY TNHH CHANHON TECHNOLOGY) in Vietnam to host the 2026 Southeast Asia Footwear Additive Manufacturing Forum, focusing on the application and promotion of additive manufacturing technology in the shoe mold industry.
Southeast Asia is a core region for global footwear manufacturing, with Vietnam serving as a key production base. Traditional shoe mold processing suffers from long lead times, high material waste, and heavy reliance on manual labor. Additive manufacturing technology, with its high efficiency, flexibility, and eco-friendly characteristics, is becoming a critical force driving the transformation of the local shoe mold industry.
The forum attracted over 60 industry representatives, including technical teams from multiple international sportswear brands and leading local shoe mold manufacturers in Vietnam. Attendees exchanged insights on topics such as production safety, process innovation, automated production lines, and localized services, exploring pathways toward large-scale and sustainable development of additive manufacturing in the Southeast Asian footwear industry.
In her welcome address, Zhou Sihan, Director of the Sports Footwear Business Unit at Farsoon Technologies, expressed the hope that the forum would serve as a bridge for communication, bringing together industry expertise to explore technology implementation and localized development.
During a keynote presentation, Cheng Jie, Deputy General Manager of Farsoon Technologies, compared traditional manufacturing with metal 3D printing in shoe mold production, noting that metal additive manufacturing can simplify processes, reduce production costs, and support energy savings and emission reductions, helping shoe mold companies achieve sustainable development goals. Leveraging an open-source system for equipment, software, materials, and parameters, users can flexibly adjust processes to ensure consistent quality across different equipment and batches of shoe molds.
At the forum, several technical experts shared insights on topics including production safety, automation platforms, process innovation, and local services.
Regarding production safety, Farsoon Technologies provided a comprehensive EHS management solution covering multiple dimensions such as printer safety design, workshop production safety management, and personal protective equipment for personnel, aimed at enhancing safety management levels in Southeast Asian manufacturing facilities and ensuring smooth batch production and stable product quality.
Farsoon Technologies unveiled the FS450M, a fully automated shoe mold industry solution, at the forum. This equipment is equipped with 6×500W fiber lasers and features an upgraded build volume, enabling precise reproduction of complex and intricate shoe mold textures. The FS450M adopts a modular design and can be paired with an AGV automatic transport system, a one-to-four fully automatic powder circulation system, post-processing automation modules, and an MES digital management platform, enabling fully automated collaborative operations across printing, powder removal, and material transport. Factories can flexibly select semi-automated or fully automated solutions based on production capacity.
To address issues such as long production cycles, complex post-processing steps, and insufficient forming accuracy in traditional shoe mold manufacturing, Farsoon Technologies showcased several self-developed innovative processes, including support-reduced forming technology, ultra-high-precision printing technology, high-strength and high-thermal-conductivity aluminum alloy printing solutions, and SLS-printed PEBA material supercritical foaming technology. These processes have improved the forming integrity of shoe mold patterns in mass production. Farsoon Technologies is also advancing R&D in SLS technology for the footwear industry, where combining it with supercritical foaming technology enables direct printing of shoe midsoles, shortening production cycles and achieving lightweight designs. VoxelDance provided design-end solutions tailored to the shoe mold industry, enabling model texture zoning, multiple support template designs, digital decals, and deformation simulation.
Farsoon Technologies has partnered with Chánh Hồng Technology to establish a localized service system in Southeast Asia, forming a full-chain support covering equipment delivery, process iteration, daily operations and maintenance, and consumables supply. The service team can provide real-time responses, on-site process debugging, and hands-on operational training.
The forum included an open Q&A session, where attendees raised questions on topics such as production investment costs, local maintenance, and EHS upgrades. That afternoon, Farsoon Technologies conducted customized production safety training for partner users, covering equipment inspection and maintenance, fault troubleshooting, software operation, and production safety requirements.
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